‘Despite the holiday marking the beginning of the school year on 1st September, the mood is not festive due to the increasing problems in the educational system, especially for the national minorities,’ said the parents of national minorities’ schools’ students during the press conference in Seimas. Their views and demands were supported by the representatives of the Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania. Read more

Electoral Action of Poles in Lithuania (EAPL) beat records of popularity. The survey support for the party has reached 5 percent in July 2015. This is the highest quotation of the party recorded in the polls over the past several years. The survey was carried out by the company ‘Baltijos tyrimai’ on the order of ELTA agency on 10-23 July 2015. The survey company asked residents for which national party they would vote if the Seimas elections were held in the near future. Read more

We, parents of children of Polish schools, state, that we announce general strike from the beginning of the new academic year. We are forced to take such radical actions due to the fact that our requests and demands have not been heard and implemented so far. Read more

After a long battle for the education of national minorities in Lithuania, after strikes, rallies, Holy Masses, and lawsuits, the Lithuanian Seimas has adopted amendments to the Law on Education postponing the need to obtain accreditation for high schools for two years. Read more

The President Elect Andrzej Duda visited Brussels last Wednesday. During his stay in Brussels he met the Group of European Conservatives and Reformists (ECR) in the European Parliament. The President was the member of the group before being elected as the President of Poland. Read more

The Vilnius self-government administration committee responsible for events has issued a permission to hold a protest action on Wednesday on the Square of Europe next to the building of the self-government of Vilnius (Konstitucijos avenue 3, Vilnius). Read more

Recently there was a weird show off of the vice mayor of Vilnius, conservative Valdas Benkunskas. He proposed to move the legendary Polish Vilnius Joachimo Lelevelio secondary school from the district of Antakalnis to Zirmunai, and to make the school apply for an ‘asylum’ in the elementary school of A. Vivulskio on the Minties street. Read more